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I find you statements about the LAA engineering to be very economical with the truth.
As an LAA inspector I only apply one standard to aircraft and that is one of safety, I won't pen off a deathtrap just because it is a permit aircraft (I have seen a few) and the owner wants a cheap job.
The so called excessive LAA paperwork will take me less than an hour to go over for a permit renewal, for an EASA ARC renewal it would be three or four hours.
In my veiw the LAA system provides the minimum oversight required to keep the permit fleet in an airworthy state while letting the owner do most of the maintenance himself.
As always there is some one who can get the job done better & cheaper but usualy these peope don't have to deal with the practicalitys and take any sort of responsability for the activity.